Horror Highlights: RiffTrax Live: CARNIVAL OF SOULS, ASH VS EVIL DEAD, TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR Impressions, IT STAINS THE SANDS RED Clip

"What's on your mind?" After watching Richard Mundy's Twenty Twenty-Four, a lot of haunting and disturbing things. We also have details on RiffTrax Live: Carnival of Souls, a video of the Ash vs Evil Dead Cast at Build Series, and a new clip from It Stains the Sands Red that premiered at Sitges Film Festival.

RiffTrax Live: Carnival of Souls Broadcast in Select Theaters: Press Release: "DENVER – August 16, 2016 – Following the recent success of their MST3K Reunion Show, Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett take on the spooky 1962 cult classic Carnival of Souls with their unique commentary. “RiffTrax Live: Carnival of Souls,” will be broadcast live to select movie theaters across the country on Thursday, October 27 at 8:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. CT and tape delayed to 7:00 p.m. MT / 8:00 p.m. PT, with an All Hallows’ Eve encore on Monday, October 31 at 7:30 p.m. local time. This event will be the first big screen presentation of the recent full-color restoration of Carnival of Souls, a process that took over 50,000 man-hours to convert the original from black and white.

Prior to this event, “RiffTrax Live: Mothra” will be broadcast live on Thursday, August 18, with an encore showing on Tuesday, August 23.

Tickets for “RiffTrax Live: Carnival of Souls” can be purchased online by visiting www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy the event in more than 600 select movie theaters through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network. For a complete list of theater locations, visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change).

"When we realized that the creators of the safety short Shake Hands with Danger had done a spooky feature film we knew we had to have it. How can you pass up the story of a church organist who moves to Utah - on purpose, mind you - only to get fired from her church organist position? It's bone chilling. And a perfect RiffTrax for Halloween!" Michael J. Nelson of RiffTrax said.

When young Mary survives a horrible car crash in Kansas, she tries to start her life over with a new job in a small Utah town. Along the way, she’s haunted by a gaunt pale figure in a nice suit who leads her to an abandoned carnival pavilion on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Soon, Mary doesn’t know if she’s awake or dreaming, alive or dead. Weird, creepy and very silly, Carnival of Souls, as riffed by the Rifftrax crew, is the perfect Halloween treat.

“The RiffTrax Live series has been on a roll in 2016,” Fathom Events CEO John Rubey said. “Fans are clamoring for this week’s ‘Mothra’ event and we can’t wait to see the response to Carnival of Souls!”

“RiffTrax Live: Carnival of Souls” is the 22nd RiffTrax title for Fathom Events since the 2009 start of the companies’ partnership. Some of the most popular titles in the RiffTrax Live lineup include “Starship Troopers,” “Manos: The Hands of Fate,” “Night of the Living Dead,” and the “MST3K Reunion Show.”"

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The Cast of Ash vs Evil Dead at Build Series: "On Wednesday, October 5th, the cast of STARZ hit horror-comedy ASH vs EVIL DEAD stopped by BUILD SERIES in New York to talk about the grooviest, goriest, gnarliest show on TV. Bruce Campbell, Lucy Lawless, Lee Majors, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Ted Raimi, and Michelle Hurd shared what fans can expect from season 2."

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Twenty Twenty-Four Impressions: It's the end of the world as we know it, and I don't feel fine.

In Richard Mundy's psychological thriller Twenty Twenty-Four, the world is on the brink of annihilation due to rapidly depleting natural resources, and underground bunkers run by lone scientists have been set up as places where the last of humankind will be sent with the hopes of starting over. There's little to no dialogue for the first few minutes of the film, giving the audience time to be immersed in the bleak world in which we find our main character, Roy (Andrew Kinsler), and to enjoy a little peace before the story ramps up to a feverish pitch.

Andrew Kinsler carries this film on his shoulders for the most part. He interacts briefly with perhaps a government official and Plethura, the artificial intelligence that runs the bunker, but this is really his show, and what a heart-pounding show it is. Kinsler does an amazing job of portraying loneliness, fear, and despair sometimes all in the same scene. Conversations between Roy and the A.I. provide short yet very insightful glimpses into who Roy is, coupled with beautifully shot scenes of Roy's erratic behavior mixed with Harry Kirby's score all acting as puzzle pieces to a much larger mystery: what the hell is going on?

Twenty Twenty-Four was a joy to watch from start to finish, and I definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good narrative and enjoys thinking about what they have just seen... even a week or two later.

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Watch a New It Stains The Sands Red Clip: "A new zombie-thriller written by The Vicious Brothers' Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz (GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, EXTRATERRESTRIAL) and directed by Minihan - IT STAINS THE SANDS RED - has just released a new clip ahead of its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival.

Synopsis: "After a zombie apocalypse, Molly is lost in the desert with a rabid living dead treading on his heels. Although initially find it easy to escape it, the situation becomes complicated when the girl realizes that, unlike her, her pursuer has no physical need to stop to rest."

Directed by Colin Minihan from a screenplay he wrote with Stuart Ortiz (as The Vicious Brothers), It Stains the Sands Red stars Brittany Allen and Juan Rieding.